Matthew Flaming

Head of Eng, Kiva Marketplace, occasional fictionalist. I like to think about systems and interconnection, stories, economies, and magic. Also forests.

[billy eichner @billyeichner]

Nothing says summer like ordering stamps while crying.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The coronavirus stimulus package carved out $135,000,000,000 in tax breaks for millionaires.

That's *three times* as much money as was included for emergency housing and food relief.

When I say we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest, this is what I mean.

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try,” General James Mattis writes in an extraordinary condemnation: https://t.co/u1GZItBU9b

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

@tedwheeler looting isn't the answer to this tragedy and racial injustice, but neither is the status quo. How about requiring police body cameras in Portland for a start? https://t.co/OOFRlLCtCW #GeorgeFloyd

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

I often think The Onion is getting soft, but this may be the most amazing Orwell/1984 tribute piece ever: https://t.co/QIBCSxrBYD

[emily freeman @editingemily]

I want to write a book on error messages.

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

Amazon’s (purported) HR video on union busting is straight out of the T. Herman Zweibel school of mgt: “You will learn to recognize warning signs associated with early organizing… use of words like ‘living wage’… notify your site leader immediately!”
https://t.co/QyGerD8IaI

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

Dear Internet, if I sign up for 100% renewable electric svc and then waste a ton of energy, am I helping the environment by creating market demand? 🤔 Kinda serious about this.

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

Struck by this, tonight:

“We shelter an angel whom we never cease to offend. We ought to be the guardians of that angel.” ~Jean Cocteau

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

Holy sh*t this was hard to watch, and should probably be mandatory viewing for cis-male managers in tech. OMG A Girl - a gamer's recordings of sexist interactions while playing https://t.co/vg1Sv0CL5b

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

@_ipengineer @thenewstack @Mierdin @newrelic @_ipengineer great q! It's a general rule of thumb for us @newrelic that things change enough in the environment that it's worth stepping back to take a big picture look at risk *at least* every 8 months -- but that tempo should reflect your velocity

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

An exercise in environmental thinking: threre are 7.5 billion humans on the planet. Next time you’re about to throw away a plastic wrapper, or buy a disposable whatever, just imagine 7.5 people doing that same thing.

[ElisaB @elisabPDX]

Your Guide to Setting SLOs and SLIs, adapted from a talk that ⁦@mflaming⁩ and I gave at #SREcon and #FutureStack https://t.co/8CAPVS0Dgg

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

@jmags Long, long overdue.

[Gabe Monroy @gabemonroy]

nailing simplicity requires a deep understanding of user personas. k8s is not designed for use by developers, but by operators. a lot of failed attempts at simplicity can be tied back to this misunderstanding. #kubernetes https://t.co/3eFa472zAx

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

There is no other time
to repair the world
to raise these children
to savor what we have

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

Notwithstanding all the special pitfalls of digital livin', THIS: “There is no ‘digital citizenship,’ there is only ‘citizenship,’ and being a responsible human in all the spaces humans inhabit.” — @irasocol

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

Great observations from @baconqurlyq at #Futurestack “The next time you talk to your team about your system, keep in mind that everyone has a different mental model of what that system actually looks like.”

[Matthew Flaming @mflaming]

Great succinct definition of what leads to alert fatigue from @rkive at @futurestack SF

[New Relic @newrelic]

"SLOs are easy to adjust, SLIs you have to get right" - @elisabPDX and @mflaming on setting SLOs and SLIs in the real world #FutureStack